Mental representation of verb meaning: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1774-1787

  Li, Xuesong ^a,b   Shu, Hua ^b   Liu, Youyi ^b   Li, Ping ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 33749438393     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.10.1774     Document Type: Article

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